'La Noche del Ejecutor' certainly takes no prisoners, and righteous revenge was never more surgically executed!
Two decades after the triumphant global success of Michael Winner's landmark vigilante classic, Spain's power-lifting premier perpetrator of gruesome horror authors his very own gun-happy, thug-trashing version of violent, cold-hearted street justice, with the processes of law moving so slowly, Dr. Hugo Arranz (Paul Naschy) chooses a more expeditious method, realising that the cumbrous bureaucratic wheels of justice moved with increasing alacrity with the vicious perpetrators peering anxiously down the barrel of his gun!
Following a traumatic, life-altering personal tragedy, the distraught surgeon not only forcefully rehabilitates himself, he undergoes rigorous military training, becoming dangerously fluent in close quarters combat, knife-throwing, and becomes a dead-eyed, expert marksman. Mercilessly tracking down his asinine assailants proves to be an arduous and bloody affair, and writer/director/actor Naschy takes on and executes the grisly subject matter of a savage home invasion, drug trafficking, immoral thuggery and gruesome, merciless revenge with gritty, ice-cool efficacy, some of the more deliberately disturbing sequences have an appalling verisimilitude, no less distressing than Aldo Lado's 'Don't Ride Late Night Trains' or Ruggero Deodato's 'House By The Edge of the Park', and the bravura, barrel chested avenger Dr. Arraz energetically makes for a singularly menacing, dark-garbed angel of death. 'La Noche del Ejecutor' certainly takes no prisoners, and righteous revenge was never more surgically executed!
Following a traumatic, life-altering personal tragedy, the distraught surgeon not only forcefully rehabilitates himself, he undergoes rigorous military training, becoming dangerously fluent in close quarters combat, knife-throwing, and becomes a dead-eyed, expert marksman. Mercilessly tracking down his asinine assailants proves to be an arduous and bloody affair, and writer/director/actor Naschy takes on and executes the grisly subject matter of a savage home invasion, drug trafficking, immoral thuggery and gruesome, merciless revenge with gritty, ice-cool efficacy, some of the more deliberately disturbing sequences have an appalling verisimilitude, no less distressing than Aldo Lado's 'Don't Ride Late Night Trains' or Ruggero Deodato's 'House By The Edge of the Park', and the bravura, barrel chested avenger Dr. Arraz energetically makes for a singularly menacing, dark-garbed angel of death. 'La Noche del Ejecutor' certainly takes no prisoners, and righteous revenge was never more surgically executed!
- Weirdling_Wolf
- Jul 22, 2021